OT: 1st reading of GR

[Tim Strzechowski]

Next, might a group reading of GR be in order?



> On the topic of reading GR, I'm also on my first reading and encountered
on
> page 411 a parenthesis that doesn't seem to get closed. I *think* I've
seen
> something like this before in the text. Is a parenthesis in this case a
> device Pynchon uses to segue, not feeling the need to close them (it's 5
> pages later and the plot has seemed to move on)-- only using them as
> transition?
> If so, that's pretty cool. Has anyone seen something like this from
another
> author? Or does the ( eventualy get closed and I haven't gotten there yet?
>
> Albert
>
>
> >From: "Ghetta Life" <ghetta_outta at hotmail.com>
> >To: brook7 at earthlink.net, pynchon-l at waste.org
> >Subject: RE: OT: 1st reading of GR
> >Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 16:43:46 +0000
> >
> >
> >Your question is a good one.  One would think that Slothrop would begin
to
> >correlate his sexual liasons with the bombed locations he subsequently
> >inspects.  One might even suspect that his assignment to that job was a
> >part of "Their" plans for his future deployment.  But in GR nothing is
ever
> >clear-cut.  As you continue reading it becomes unclear whether the spots
> >marked on the map are real encounters or possible just imagined ones.
> >Nevertheless they seem to fortell future bombings.
> >
> >I suggest you follow one of the GRGR's (group reads) in the WASTE
archives.
> >  One started in August 1999 and continued through September 2000.  An
> >earlier one started a couple years earlier, but I can't locate it at the
> >moment.
> >
> >Ghetta
> >
> >
> >>From: "Joseph Tracy" <brook7 at earthlink.net>>
> >>After several renewals I finally returned my borrowed  copy of Vineland
> >>and went out and bought a copy of GR. I have just started the 3rd
section
> >>and have a  fundamental plot question mixed in with a few hundred
> >>structural and interpretive questions. I have never encountered a text
> >>this dense with historic information, spiritual esoterica, science etc.
My
> >>question is this.  In the first 2 sections has Slothrop himself
correlated
> >>theV-2 strikes with his sexual encounters? This seems, almost
impossibly,
> >>since his 1st job was to inspect strike sites, to be the case? Is this
> >>something everyone he works with knows but him , or am I missing
something
> >>that indicates he shares this basic knowledge?
> >
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